Hello guys,
I recently got thinking about my system that I will now be upgrading from its ageing i7-2600 to an i5-6600K. I was wondering why ampere draw isn't a concern in the overclocking world (I haven't seen anyone mention hitting some ampere limit... ever.) so I calculated the amp draw for my i7.
I'm in a rather particular case here where I have undervolted my CPU but overclocked it on the other side: it runs on a multiplier of 42 at 1.13V stable but of course, when all 4 cores are hit with oad like AIDA64, the frequency is 3.9 GHz and not 4.2. I noted that I draws only 83W out of its 95W TDP which I think I can attribute to the undervolting and the iGPU not being used. However, when calculating the ampere draw, I got a stupidly high number... 73A. I ran the formula for current (Watts/volts) which is in my case 83/1.136~73.08
This made me second guess myself but upon checking on other articles I found out that people are debating over this so can you solve this once and for all for me? Is my math correct and my CPU really drawing the 73 amperes of current or am I missing something here? Also, I am planning to overclock this i5-6600K and I will report in about a week about my results and just so you guys can get a better idea if you're in the market for one, what frequency and volts you may be looking at, along with temperatures of course.
Thanks
I recently got thinking about my system that I will now be upgrading from its ageing i7-2600 to an i5-6600K. I was wondering why ampere draw isn't a concern in the overclocking world (I haven't seen anyone mention hitting some ampere limit... ever.) so I calculated the amp draw for my i7.
I'm in a rather particular case here where I have undervolted my CPU but overclocked it on the other side: it runs on a multiplier of 42 at 1.13V stable but of course, when all 4 cores are hit with oad like AIDA64, the frequency is 3.9 GHz and not 4.2. I noted that I draws only 83W out of its 95W TDP which I think I can attribute to the undervolting and the iGPU not being used. However, when calculating the ampere draw, I got a stupidly high number... 73A. I ran the formula for current (Watts/volts) which is in my case 83/1.136~73.08
This made me second guess myself but upon checking on other articles I found out that people are debating over this so can you solve this once and for all for me? Is my math correct and my CPU really drawing the 73 amperes of current or am I missing something here? Also, I am planning to overclock this i5-6600K and I will report in about a week about my results and just so you guys can get a better idea if you're in the market for one, what frequency and volts you may be looking at, along with temperatures of course.
Thanks
I didn't start by looking on this forum first and proceeded to look on other sites. I guess this closes this topic then x)
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